[ltp] Drive Set-up on a TP760ED

[Tod Harter]

This seems like a pretty reasonable analysis from my experience as well, but 
depending on what you want to do with your linux it COULD be much smaller. I 
have installed Mandrake 8.1 on servers in as little as 700 megs, and could 
probably go a good bit smaller if I really had to, you just need to really 
aggressively prune what you need down to a bare minimum. 700 megs will get 
you a basic system with X and ICEWM or FVWM95 and basic services plus a few 
applications you might want to use and your basic kernel, hardware support, 
man, and a few other really "must have" type things. If you REALLY need to 
get down to a lot smaller footprint you would want to use a specialist 
distribution.

On Friday 18 January 2002 03:54, you wrote:
> 2.5 gig is enough for linux for something however it will be tight and you
> should be picky about exactly what you want to install. will that little
> space I would suggest you use "one big partitition as /" for your system,
> rather than deviding it up into / /usr /var /tmp to make sure what free
> space you do have don't become fragmented across partitions.
>
> Its not a suse system however to show you the sizes you can get away with
> here is the space I have used (not avialable space)
> / 70meg
> /var 52 meg
> /usr 1.2 gig could be pruned by about 100meg as I have 2 kernel source
> trees at the moment...
>
> don't forget you will need some swap space, however you can use /dev/shm
> for /tmp which means swap can double as /tmp space.
>
> All in all if your careful you would have about 1g free for use on a 2.5
> gig partition. Generally I find the amount of mp3s on a system explands to
> fill the ammount of available space, so I would suggest deleting xmms and
> then you have more space than your ever need ;-)
>
> James
>
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